Dashes Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in…
— Fran Lebowitz
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It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is…
— Bergen Evans
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter…
— B. C. Forbes
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Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.
— Jules Renard
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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it…
— Philip Larkin
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She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the…
— Tom Wolfe
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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the fretful…
— John Wesley Powell
Who Wrote These Dashes Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Dashes Quotes as follows: